HARRIS, Leslie Alfred
Service Number: | 2042 |
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Enlisted: | 15 September 1915, Brisbane, Queensland |
Last Rank: | Gunner |
Last Unit: | 11th Field Artillery Brigade |
Born: | Goodna, Queensland, Australia, 28 September 1895 |
Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Clerk |
Died: | Natural causes, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, 15 August 1972, aged 76 years |
Cemetery: |
Toowoomba Garden of Remembrance | Cemetery & Crematorium |
Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
15 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Brisbane, Queensland | |
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31 Jan 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2042, 2nd Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Wandilla embarkation_ship_number: A62 public_note: '' | |
31 Jan 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2042, 2nd Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Wandilla, Brisbane | |
6 Apr 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 4th Division Artillery , Serapeum | |
21 Apr 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 11th Field Artillery Brigade | |
10 Jun 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Gunner, 2042 | |
1 Aug 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Gunner, 2042, 11th Field Artillery Brigade | |
1 May 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Gunner, 2042, 11th Field Artillery Brigade , per China | |
17 Aug 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Leslie Alfred Harris was the eldest of 9 children of Alfred Edward Harris and Elizabeth Roxborough Smith. Brothers Dougls James and Edward David also served in the Australian Defence Forces. Leslie was a Clerk when he enlisted in 1915 and following WWI, he married Doris Roberts in 1929 in Brisbane, QLD where he worked as a Clerk.
The family moved to Toowoomba in the Darling Downs, QLD in the early 1940s and Leslie continued employment as a Clek